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Experimenting with the Comprehension of Feature-Oriented and UML-Based Core Assets

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2011, EMMSAD 2011)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 81))

Abstract

Software product line engineering mainly deals with specifying and developing core assets that can be utilized and adapted into specific product artifacts. Feature-oriented and UML-based modeling methods have been proposed for managing and supporting core assets specification. While these methods get a lot of attention in software product line engineering literature, their comparison in terms of comprehension is somewhat neglected. Being suitable for early stages of core assets development, this work aims at performing comparative analysis and discussing their advantages and limitations in view of two main stakeholders: developers and product customers. To this end, we conducted two experiments for examining the comprehension of core assets specification in feature-oriented CBFM and UML-based ADOM. The results showed that the only significant difference in terms of comprehension between these methods is in variability specification; developers may better understand the locations at which variability occurs and the ways to realize variability in ADOM.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, Israel

    Iris Reinhartz-Berger & Arava Tsoury

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  1. INTI International University, Malaysia

    Terry Halpin

  2. IAE de Paris Sorbonne Graduate Business School, 21, rue Broca, 75005, Paris, France

    Selmin Nurcan

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

  4. MIS Department, Faculty of Social Science, Haifa University, Carmel Mountain, 35901, Haifa, Israel

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  6. HTW-Aalen, 73430, Aalen, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

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Reinhartz-Berger, I., Tsoury, A. (2011). Experimenting with the Comprehension of Feature-Oriented and UML-Based Core Assets. In: Halpin, T., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2011 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 81. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_34

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